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Published in final edited form as: Community Ment Health J. 2009 Jun 17;46(1):33–43. doi: 10.1007/s10597-009-9201-z

Table 1.

Cronbach alpha and mean (SD) of perceived social support (PSS) scales

PSS scale	No. of items	Entire sample	Sex		Age group
			Boys	Girls	<12	12–14	≥15
Cronbach alpha
PSS scale	16	.88	.89	.87	.86	.88	.89
Family	4	.73	.74	.71	.70	.74	.72
Friends	4	.71	.71	.71	.64	.70	.75
Teacher	4	.74	.74	.75	.70	.74	.79
Other	4	.71	.69	.72	.68	.71	.67
Mean (SD)
PSS scale	16	3.07 (.86)	2.99 (.88)	3.16 (.84)^****	2.92 (.85)	3.02 (.89)	3.31 (.78)^****
Family	4	3.23 (1.04)	3.17 (1.08)	3.30 (1.00)^*	3.12 (1.07)	3.15 (1.05)	3.51 (.94)^****
Friends	4	2.98 (1.02)	2.89 (1.02)	3.08 (1.00)^****	2.82 (.99)	2.91 (1.03)	3.28 (.94)
Teacher	4	2.91 (1.07)	2.87 (1.07)	2.96 (1.06)	2.90 (1.05)	2.90 (1.09)	2.93 (1.03)
Other	4	3.16 (1.08)	3.04 (1.07)	3.29 (1.06)^****	2.89 (1.05)	3.12 (1.10)	3.51 (.95)^****

P < .05;

^****

P < .0001